Provisional programme (to be finalised):

 

Day 1: framing the workshop

12.00-13.00     Arrival, registration and coffee

13.00-13.30     Welcome and introduction to scope of workshop: developing IODP drilling proposals (Nicholson, Heriot-Watt U, Gulick, UTexas at Austin)

13.30-14.00       Global overview of confirmed impact structures: Impact Earth (Osinski, Western U)

14.00-14.30       Physics of impact cratering: insights from numerical modelling (Collins, Imperial Coll)

14.30-15.00      Structural geology of impact craters (Kenkmann, Freiberg U)

15.00-15.30      Coffee and posters

15.30-16.00       Results of IODP Expedition 364 & ICDP 5032 – Chicxulub Drilling (Gulick, UTexas)

16.00-16.30       Geochronology of impact structures (Pickersgill, U Glasgow)

16.30-17.00       Impact hydrothermal systems and life (Cockell, U Edinburgh)

17.00-17.30       How to test and confirm terrestrial impact structures (Koeberl, U Vienna)

17.30-19.00      Icebreaker and posters

 

Day 2: new drilling opportunities

9.00-9.20           ICDP overview and proposal submission process (ICDP representative)

9.20-9.45           IODP3 and MSP capabilities (ECORD representative)

9.45-10.00         US Scientific Ocean Drilling MSP process (SODCO representative)

10.00-10.30       3D seismic and marine crater proposals: Nadir and Silverpit (Nicholson)

10.30-11.00       Coffee

11.00-12.30       Short pitches – candidate impact craters for scientific drilling (5 mins each, up to 8 pitches + discussion)

12.30-13.30      Lunch and posters

13.30-14.00       Overview of ICDP impact crater drilling results (Koeberl, UVienna)

14.00-14.30       Group brainstorming: what science questions can be addressed by drilling impacts?

14.30-16.30       Breakout groups – developing new MSP/ICDP drilling opportunities

16.30-17.00      Summary from breakout groups, and definition of next tasks for day 3

19.00-21.00       Group dinner

 

Day 3: proposals

9.00-9.30           Brief summary of previous day’s discussion

9.30 -13.00        Proposal framing and writing (proposals, prospectus, white paper)

13.00-14.00     Lunch buffet

14.00-               Main workshop closed

14.00-17.00     drive to Inverness (field trip)

 

Day 4: field trip (optional)

8.00-10.00         Drive to Stoer Peninsula

10.00-12.00       Stac Fada type locality

12.00-14.00       Drive to Enard Bay (with lunch stop)

14.00-16.00       Stac Fada member

16.00-17.30       Drive to Inverness

 

Day 5: field trip (optional)*

8.00-9.00           Drive to Loch Ness

9.00-11.00         Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle

11.00-12.00       Drive to Inverness

12.00-13.30       Lunch in Inverness

13.30-17.00       Drive to Edinburgh (stopping at Edinburgh airport).

* participants can depart early via Inverness airport

 

Invited speakers:

Gordon Osinski. Western University. Topic – Global overview of confirmed impact structures: Impact Earth

Christian Koeberl. University of Vienna. Topics- Overview of ICDP drilling in impact craters & Confirming an impact structure

Thomas Kenkmann. University of Freiburg. Topic – Structural evolution of impact craters

Sean Gulick. University of Texas at Austin. Topic – Overview of Chicxulub drilling.

Charles Cockell. University of Edinburgh. Topic – Impact hydrothermal systems and life

Gareth Collins. Imperial College London. Topic – State of the art of numerical modelling

Uisdean Nicholson. Heriot-Watt University. Topic – 3D Seismic and marine impact crater drilling

Annemarie Pickersgill. University of Glasgow. Topic – Geochronology of impact structures.